From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Oct 5 21:14:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47FC037B502; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:14:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e964EIi27655; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:14:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e964Bsl44188; Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200010060348.e963mwh04217@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 21:11:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: moving manpages out of /sys/modules Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Oct-00 Mike Smith wrote: >> > I've asked for a repo copy of the scripts. Sheldon is dealing with the >> > manpages. I've asked for the shell scripts to go into usr.sbin as these >> > really aren't general user commands. >> >> Sounds good to me. Although, I really agree with Bruce's sentiment >> to just axe the things. 'joy' is very worthless since you can already >> do 'kdload joy', or add 'joy_load="YES"' to /boot/loader.conf. Also, >> 'linux', 'osf1', etc. are also rather useless since we have >> 'linux_compat', 'osf1_compat' knobs in rc.conf already. I'd vote to >> just kill the trivial scripts and just keep the manpages. > > 'linux' at least is nontrivial, since it updates the Linux dynamic linker > cache. 'osf1' may do the same thing (although I have not checked). Does 'compat_linux' do this as well in /etc/rc*? However, that is a more convincing argument to keep 'linux' at least. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message